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Pinterest: Mint and blush

Did anyone else notice the abundance of mint and blush coloured pins on pinterest last week?

I'm obsessed, I think it's going to be my colour combo for spring!
Every year I unintentionally have a 'colour' for the seasons. Last year peach was my spring colour, pink and orange were the colours I mostly wore in summer and so far this winter, black and grey (playing it safe)!

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It is refreshing (just like mint!) to see and read about other colours than emerald, the supposed chosen colour for 2013 (see Burda, Oscar de la Renta, sewing blogs,etc). Too bad, guess I will be out of fashion then ;-).

This skirt was meant to have a center back zip along with side seam pockets. Instead I put the two together and combined the zip into the side seam pocket and thought I would share with you how I did it or basically winged it ;)

What You should Know First:
This is easier than it looks all you need to do is be able to insert an invisible zip.
The waist band was faced but I found it easier to attach the facing once the zip was in place.
This skirt also had lining but the lining fabric is treated as a single layer with the fashion fabric. Prep:
Prior to inserting the zip and pockets and treating the lining and fabric as one layer, I made sure both side seams were over-locked Construction Tips:These are by no means a definite way to do this, just the way I did it.
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1. Pocket pieces should be kept separate, which makes it easier to place on the the skirt.

2. Taking the one pocket piece (Ignore that I have two in the pic) I lined it up on the right side of the skirt, with the correspondin…